Verbatim 1TB external harddrive size woes?

Here's the fix!

Published on January 21, 2009 By Snowman In WinCustomize Talk

Dunno if this is an issue with other larger external/internal harddrives, but I bought a 1TB (TerraByte - 1000 GigaBytes) the other, and when plugged in Windows initially didn't report the correct size.
I my case it was reported at "only" 500 GB.

The fix? A simple formatting....

Here's how I found out (The Verbatim website was of no help, what so ever.....)

I found out the filesystem was initially FAT32.. who the F**K uses FAT32 these days?!

Screenshot from Windows Disk Manager + the 'faulty' disk properties:

So, off I went to convert it to NTFS!
But.... it wasn't that easily done...
Here's the lay down from the DOS Command prompt:

Dirty drive?!?! Never heard that before....
Ok, so I couldn't do in that way.

Up with the Disk Manager again, and try to format/convert it from there.
And hey presto.... it worked!

Windows now reports the drive at the correct size!

PS/NOTE/WARNING!

Before you go off and starts the formatting; be sure that you do NOT need to use the PC for quite some time....
It takes a long time to format a drive of this size.
Took 11 hours to format this drive.....

Comments

Fuzzy Logic

on Jan 22, 2009

Dirty bit? I've not seen that for a while!

Pleased you got it sorted

Snowman

on Jan 22, 2009

Kinda strange that you have to format the drive to make full use of it, and that nothing is mentioned about it on the website or in the manual....
Makes me wish/hope that my case is a stand-alone case.

Bebi Bulma

on Jan 22, 2009

It was FAT32 because it's compatible with everything (linux, mac, win98, etc). My TB drive didn't take 11 hours to format, just a few.

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